Green Party Energy spokesperson Eamon Ryan TD has said the Government's white paper on energy, released today, fails to deliver on the commitments given in Brussels last week, to generate 20% of our energy by renewable sources by 2020.

THE recent call by the Government’s think tank for the State to at least look at the nuclear option in terms of future energy needs should have sent shockwaves across the country.

COMPANIES will soon be fined if they produce excess carbon dioxide emissions, new proposals published by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed yesterday.